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When Schools Compete

The search for more effective ways to organize and manage state educational systems has become a global phenomenon. In recent years attention in many countries has focused on two distinct but interrelated sets of ideas.

Cincinnati

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Teacher Rights, Administrator Wrongs

In recent months, there have been numerous incidents when school administrators have attempted to prohibit or otherwise discipline teachers for wearing buttons or armbands that protested the government’s involvement in the war with Iraq. We asked Rich Saks, a lawyer who works with the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association to summarize teacher rights on this matter. This is what he told us:

Aliens

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Josh Langworthy, a junior at Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, wrote the following essay about his “every day hero” during our Katrina unit. In addition to paying tribute to a woman who deserves it, Josh’s story also provides lessons for teachers. Who are the students in our classrooms? What are their stories? As much as NCLB would like to turn students into test scores, they arrive with a history that might help us teach them — and reach them — more effectively.